Is Damascus going down?
It isn’t looking good for Syria’s detested dictator, Bashar al-Assad.
The strongman is surrounded by multiple rebel factions, all of which have blocked his route out of the city off.
He’s losing city after city in rapid succession, domino-style:
And they’re getting stronger:
According to Syria-watcher Saul Sadka, who seems to be from Israel:
If the rebels capture the Homs area, it is all over for Assad. His Alawite coastal heartland and all the ports (circled in pink) will be cut off from the capital Damascus. Iran would lose access to all but two border crossings into Lebanon (mountain passes that Israel can, and routinely does, control via airstrikes. The Kurds are also pushing into Deir Az Zor (circled in yellow), and if they succeed, Iran will lose its primary supply route to Hezbollah (they will be forced to run the gauntlet across the Syrian desert, within easy reach of US bases).
